All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.
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Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.Stevie Smith
If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
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I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
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